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- Billion-dollar IT failure at Census Bureau
- Â The US Census Bureau faces cost overruns up to $2 billion on an IT initiative replacing paper-based data collection methods with specialized handheld devices for the upcoming 2010 census. The Bureau has not implemented longstanding Government Accountability Office GAO recommendations and may therefore be forced to...
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- GAO: Dry runs make radiation-detection tests unreliable
- The Government Accountability Office says that the Department of Homeland Security has been encouraging vendors of new radiation detection equipment to cheat on upcoming tests, The Washington Post reports. Those tests are supposed to determine whether Congress moves forward with $1.2 billion in funding for the machines....
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
- Prepare for more scrutiny after SEC's SOX failure, says Gartner
- Earlier this week, CNet News.com reported that the Government Accountability Office GAO audit of the SEC found that the organization, ironically, did not have effective internal control over financial reporting, pointing to weaknesses in its information security and accountancy practices. The GAO also found that the SEC's financial statements for...
- Blog posts 2005-06-30
- Did SOX failure push SEC Chairman over the edge?
- Earlier this week, CNet News.com reported that the Government Accountability Office GAO audit of the SEC found that the organization, ironically, did not have effective internal control over financial reporting, pointing to weaknesses in its information security and accountancy practices. The GAO also found that the SEC's financial statements for...
- Blog posts 2005-06-01
- Advancing Enterprise Architecture Maturity: Version 2.0
- The Government Accountability Office GAO created the EA Management Maturity Framework EAMMF based on the EA Practical Guide that measures how Enterprise Architectures are/are not addressing the root business/mission and IT gaps that the passage of the Clinger Cohen Act of 1996 was to address. What the GAO found in...
- White papers 2005-01-01
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- Building a vision for Government 2.0
- Government 2.0 isn't waiting for a federal mandate. Earlier this week, the nation's first ever CIO, Vivek Kundra, urged the use of Web 2.0 approaches to address the needs of government and citizens at the Management of Change conference in Norfolk, Virginia. Kundra outlined several important areas where he...
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- National Archives lost 2TB drive from Clinton years
- "The nation's record keeper" - the National Archives and Record Administration - has lost a two-terabyte hard drive containing digital records from Bill Clinton's presidency. In a statement, NARA said that it "takes very seriously the loss of an external hard drive that contained copies of...
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Gov't IT projects: Billions at risk
- New Congressional testimony by the General Accountability Office GAO reports that "352 [US federal government] projects totaling about $23.4 billionâ€"were poorly planned." by Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-05-18
- Google sidesteps Korean identity law
- Google sidesteps Korean identity lawSocial Harmony = Social slavery and lack of dissentIn most of the countries that 'value that'. The fact is that social harmony comes second to my right to do what I want to do as long as I am not: physically harming someone else without their...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-13
- The U.S. electrical grid: How big of a cyber target is it?
- Updated: Spies have reportedly been probing the U.S. electrical grid for months and planting software that could be activated at a future date, according to a Wall Street Journal. The report highlights the latest vulnerabilities facing U.S. power infrastructure. The Journal notes that the spies are from China,...
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- New CIO's vision: Democratizing Data
- DC's data feed of crime data on Google Maps links a police report to the location. W. David Stephenson knows our new federal CIO pretty well: he's been cowriting a book with him: Democratizing Data, to be published by O'Reilly. So I turned to Stephenson...
- Blog posts 2009-03-08
- Extreme capitalism. Consumption supreme. Is it over?
- Extreme capitalism. Consumption supreme. Is it over?Obamasiah will not allow drilling or new Nuclear powerObamasiah has banned off-shore drilling and building of any new power plants.So I hope everyone enjoys the 25% ENERGY TAX coming this summer, get ready to have electricity crisis along with high fuel cost...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-08
- White House 2.0: Working through tech challenges
- It's only been a little over a month since the tech-savvy Obama administration moved in the White House, so it's no surprise that WH staffers might still be experiencing some growing pains on the tech front. Here you have this group of people that were using Twitter,...
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
- How much should government commit to open source?
- How much should government commit to open source?If open source is as good as you believe......then companies offering open source solutions will win those contracts for medical records etc. So you can say its already been done...if they can actually win that is.Huh?How would that help the economy?How would...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-27
- Mobiles for your users
- We all have users for whom a mobile phone of some sort makes a lot of sense. Our district has always either provided a phone or a moderate subsidy for key staff who need to stay in touch. Principals need to be reachable in case of emergencies with...
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Senate introduces IT failures bill: No wiggle room
- Senate introduces IT failures bill: No wiggle roomIt's what the President should have been requiring alreadyThis really isn't what Congress should be doing, but there should be such rules.RE: Senate introduces IT failures bill: No wiggle roomA little accountability goes a long way. I just hope the legislation is...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-13
- Judge orders Palin to preserve Yahoo emails
- Judge orders Palin to preserve Yahoo emailsAnother Fishing Expedition ....... funded by the taxpayer and brought about by partisan politics. I suspect the rumors and the interest will subside shortly after the election.RE: Judge orders Palin to preserve Yahoo emailsIf there was anything criminal in those messages, the Dems...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Palin had '10 to 15' secret email accounts
- Somehow I'm not surprised to read that Gov. Sarah Palin has more email accounts. It's now very well known, of course, that her office operated Yahoo accounts. Someone breached one of the Yahoo accounts, prompting an Internet manhunt. Now the Washington Post reports (yeah, I...
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Out of our hands, but not out of our lives. New info on green tech dumping
- We've all heard the horrible stories about discarded tech from the United States that has shown up across India and Asia. Because the coverage of this topic has gotten better, you may have been lulled into thinking that the situation has gotten a whole lot better. But this ongoing blog...
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- E-waste regs are way too lax, GAO says
- Greenpeace A new Government Accountability Office report slams the EPA for its "low priority" on e-waste. EPA regs only cover old cathode-ray tube TVs and monitors, John Stephenson, environmental director for GAO told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee, News.com reports. Not only are the EPA...
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
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